Gurjinder Basran’s novel Everything Was Goodbye has been shortlisted for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize! Winners announced April 21, 2011. Congratulations to Gurjinder and to her publisher Mother Tongue Publishing. Everything Was Goodbye won Mother Tongue’s Search for the Great B.C. Novel Contest. Everything Was Good-Bye centers around Meena, a young Indo Canadian woman growing up in [...]
Hump, Ariel Gordon’s 2010 collection of poetry, shortlisted for two Manitoba Book Awards awards! Her debut made the list for the Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry/Prix Lansdowne de poésie and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book. The awards will be presented at the Manitoba Book Awards gala, taking place Sunday April 17th [...]
About Love Minus Zero Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Lori Hahnel: I’ve been told by readers that the main character, Kate, is a very vivid and real person to them. One woman said she didn’t want to finish the book because she didn’t want to [...]
About Nothing Sacred Book Club Buddy: What do you think readers will find most notable about this book? Lori Hahnel: Readers have told me that they are struck by the ordinariness of the characters in Nothing Sacred. These characters are parents, daughters, sons, spouses, lovers. They work in retail, or in offices, or libraries. Many [...]
Love Minus Zero (Oberon Press, 2008) is a novel that begins in Calgary’s 1979 punk scene. Sixteen-year-old Kate Brandt is obsessed with music, a singer and in her own band, but disillusionment with the underground scene soon sets in. We follow Kate’s struggles with life and love over a period of thirty years. Lori Hahnel [...]
About The Quetzal Skull BCB: What do you think readers might find notable about The Quetzal Skull? Margaret Gill: They will learn about a little known Central American country, a country of magnificent rainforests and cloud forests, about the problems of corruption and drug dealing facing a peace loving, friendly people, who have a ‘manana’ [...]
Nothing Sacred, by Lori Hahnel, is a collection of stories that fracture stereotypes of the sanctity of marriage, the values of good people, and the expected happy ending. Provocative, talkative, sardonic and glib, Hahnel’s characters strike friction between the sentimental values of bygone Hollywood flicks and the misgivings of lower class life in western Canada. [...]
Sweetness from Ashes was named one of the Best Fiction Titles of 2010 by January Magazine. Set in Vancouver, rural Ontario and West Africa, Sweetness from Ashes is a novel about family–in various forms. When Sheila, Jenny and Chris decide to respect a deceased relative’s wishes by returning her ashes to the family farm, the three [...]
The Quetzal Skull by Margaret Gill. Outskirts Press. January 2011. 258 pages. The Quetzal Skull is the story of a young man’s rite of passage against a drug dealing, zombie creating cabal. Gray’s discovery of a narwhal tusk engraved with ancient runes has alerted a drug dealing cabal who believe the finder of these runes will [...]
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